Important Archaeological Figures

Important people in archaeology.

11 cards·by tiffreja

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A. E. Douglass

Tree-Ring Dating: seasonal variations = different growth ring sizes

Gerard de Geer

Varves: fine (winter) and coarse (summer) sediment together make 1 annual cycle

Karl Butzer

Environmental archaeology

Louis Agassiz

Glacial evidence for landscapes, sediments, & soils

Lennart von Post

Palynology: study of pollen

Ernest Lundelius

Argued that there was no human overkill at end of Ice Age

Paul Martin

Argued that there was human overkill at the end of Ice Age

Raymond Dart

Killer Apes

C. K. Brain

Hunter or the Hunted?

Bordes

Stone artifacts

Crabtree

From Idaho, replicated an ancient stone artifact